"Awards: It was also nominated for six Golden Globe Awards: The soundtrack peaked on the ""Billboard"" Album Chart at number 6 and was certified gold. A majority of the songs were written by Kander and Ebb. Funny Lady Funny Lady is a 1975 American biographical musical comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall and Ben Vereen. A sequel to the 1968 film ""Funny Girl"", it is a highly fictionalized account of the later life and career of comedian Fanny Brice and her marriage to songwriter and impresario Billy Rose. The screenplay"
"Funny Girl (novel) Funny Girl is a 2014 novel by the British writer Nick Hornby. The novel is about Barbara Parker, Miss Blackpool of 1964, who decides to forego ideas of becoming a beauty queen. She heads for London, determined to make her mark as a television comedian, inspired by her idol Lucille Ball. After finding a job on a cosmetics counter in a London department store, she meets a theatrical agent, Brian Debenham, who finds her an audition for a television sitcom pilot based around the domestic life of a newlywed couple. Taking the name Sophie Straw, she becomes"
"co-starred in the 1968-1969 ABC series ""That's Life"". Kay Medford never married and had no children. She died of cancer in New York City in 1980, aged 60. Kay Medford Margaret Kathleen Regan (born September 14, 1919 – April 10, 1980), better known as Kay Medford, was an American actress. For her performance as Rose Brice in the musical ""Funny Girl"" and the film adaptation of the same name, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Medford was born in 1919 in New York City"
"cover the ""Funny Girl"" songs (several of which were to appear on their shelved 1965 album ""There's a Place for Us"") to tie-in with the September release of the feature-film version of the musical. Funny Girl (musical) Funny Girl is a 1963 musical (opened on Broadway in 1964) with a book by Isobel Lennart, music by Jule Styne, and lyrics by Bob Merrill. The semi-biographical plot is based on the life and career of Broadway star, film actress and comedian Fanny Brice featuring her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nick Arnstein. Its original title was ""My Man."" The musical"
"The Fun Girls The Fun Girls (""Daphne and Skippy"") are fictional recurring characters on ""The Andy Griffith Show"", an American TV sitcom from the 1960s. ""The Fun Girls"" (sardonically nicknamed by Thelma Lou) were a pair of fun-loving women: the giggly Skippy (played by Joyce Jameson) and the gravel-voiced Daphne (played by Jean Carson). The two hailed from Mount Pilot, the ""big city"" near the small town of Mayberry. They were flirtatious, they loved dancing, and their appearance in town almost always meant trouble for Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife (both of whom had steady girlfriends). Skippy was"
"2007, Hines starred in the City Center Encores! production of ""Follies"". Mimi Hines Mimi Hines (born July 17, 1933) is a Canadian singer and comedian best known for her appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show ""The Tonight Show"" and her work on Broadway. She succeeded Barbra Streisand in the original production of ""Funny Girl"". Hines was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and resides in the United States. She worked for a time in Anchorage, Alaska, where she met her partner Phil Ford, while they were working at different night clubs. On August 28, 1958, she and Ford appeared on"
"... 100 Songs"", and the line ""Hello, gorgeous"" at #81 in its 2005 list of ""100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes"". ""Funny Girl"" is considered one of the greatest musical films ever. In 2016, ""Funny Girl"" was deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Set in and around New York City just prior to and following World War I, the story opens with ""Ziegfeld Follies"" star Fanny Brice awaiting the return of husband Nicky Arnstein from prison, and then moves into an extended flashback focusing"
"the hands of the director Joil Newman who exchanged the female role of Fanny with Funnie Brice, a male. The actor Julio Cesar Arturo Valverde Monje was hired to play the iconic character. The first tour started in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Teatro Opera, and the cast then traveled to Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama. The cast then traveled to the rest of South America with the ""Funny Girl"" South America Tour 2.0. Opening night was on October 15, 2015. A new London production opened at the Menier Chocolate Factory on November 20, 2015 in previews, officially on December"
"Lucky Girl (2015 film) Lucky Girl is an American television film produced by New Kingdom Pictures and directed by Greg Carter. The film's ensemble cast includes LeToya Luckett, Columbus Short, Serayah, Ella Joyce, Keeland Ellis, Hawthorne James, Billy Sorrells, Gary Anthony Sturgis, Jalene Mack, Shanti Lowry, Malik Yoba, Parker McKenna Posey and Junie Hoang. Soon to be bride Selena is not happy how wedding weekend is planned. As she prepares to get married on Christmas Eve, a group of her closest college friends descend upon her mother Melanie's luxurious home for her upcoming rehearsal dinner. Selena must now play the"
"into the District of Columbia, Arnstein entered Leavenworth prison, where he remained for three years. Brice divorced him on September 17, 1927, soon after his release. Arnstein remained out of trouble for the rest of his life. He lived long enough to see himself immortalized in the 1964 Broadway musical ""Funny Girl"", in which he was portrayed in a somewhat whitewashed version by Sydney Chaplin. In the musical, Arnstein is found guilty of embezzlement, has never been married to anyone but Fanny, and serves only one prison sentence – after being married for several years. Omar Sharif assumed the role"
"Kay Medford Margaret Kathleen Regan (born September 14, 1919 – April 10, 1980), better known as Kay Medford, was an American actress. For her performance as Rose Brice in the musical ""Funny Girl"" and the film adaptation of the same name, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Medford was born in 1919 in New York City to James and Mary Regan, first-generation Irish-American parents. She was orphaned in her teens. She adopted the name ""Kay Medford"" professionally, and began her career after graduating from"
"until the show closed. The First National Tour gave top billing to Lillian Roth as Mrs. Brice, Anthony George as Nicky and Marilyn Michaels third billed as Fanny. The Australasian premiere season commenced March 4, 1966 at the Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney. The production starred Jill Perryman as Fanny Brice. A 1996 United States National tour starred Debbie Gibson as Fanny Brice and Robert Westenberg as Nicky Arnstein. The planned 30-city tour started in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in October 1996, but ended prematurely in November 1996 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1999, The Production Company produced ""Funny Girl"" in Melbourne, starring"
"directed by Bartlett Sher had been announced to premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in January 2012 with Lauren Ambrose starring as Fanny Brice and Bobby Cannavale as Nicky Arnstein, and then open on Broadway in April 2012. However, on November 3, 2011, producer Bob Boyett announced that this production has been postponed. He said ""We have made the extremely difficult decision today to postpone our production of ""Funny Girl"". Given the current economic climate, many Broadway producing investors have found it impossible to maintain their standard level of financial commitment."" In 2014, the musical was reimagined in"
"""Hello, Dolly!"" and ""Funny Girl"", both popular holdovers from the previous theatrical season. The Broadway production, directed by Arthur Penn and choreographed by Donald McKayle, opened on October 20, 1964 at the Majestic Theatre, where it ran for 568 performances and twenty-five previews. In addition to Davis, the cast included Billy Daniels as Eddie Satin, Kenneth Tobey as Tom Moody, Jaimie Rogers as Lopez and Paula Wayne as Lorna Moon, with Johnny Brown, Lola Falana, Louis Gossett, Al Kirk, Baayork Lee, and Theresa Merritt in supporting roles. An original cast recording was released by Capitol Records. One song from the"
"Funny Face Funny Face is a 1957 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and written by Leonard Gershe, containing assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. Although having the same title as the 1927 Broadway musical ""Funny Face"" by the Gershwin brothers, and featuring the same male star (Fred Astaire), the plot is totally different and only four of the songs from the stage musical are included. Alongside Astaire, the film stars Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson. Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) is a fashion magazine publisher and editor, for ""Quality"" magazine, who is looking for the next"
"Lucky Girl (2001 film) Lucky Girl (also known as My Daughter's Secret Life) is a 2001 Canadian drama film starring Elisha Cuthbert, Sherry Miller, and Charlotte Sullivan, directed by John Fawcett. Kaitlyn (Elisha Cuthbert) is a high school student whose obsession with gambling leads to her accumulating a mountain of debt. Her habit also causes a high degree of family tension. The film commences with Kaitlyn in a mathematics class. She is ecstatic because she has won a prize on a lottery ticket. It is soon revealed that Kaitlyn and her friends are saving money in order to travel to"
"worries the group and Sidney during the interval, the latter impressing on Rachel how even more important it is the second act goes well. Sue and Rachel sing ""Who Are You Now?"", the former dancing with Mario and the latter on stage. Rachel thinks of Finn during the number and sheds a few tears for him. After the show, which went smoothly, Rachel turns down a satisfied Sidney's invitation to a Broadway cast party, and the seven (Rachel, Blaine, Kurt, Santana, Mercedes, Tina, and Sam) go to a gay bar full of ""Funny Girl"" fans, where Rachel performs ""Pumping Blood""."
"role as Fanny Brice in ""Funny Girl."" She travels to LA under the guise of being sick to audition for a television pilot, ""Song"" ""of"" ""Solomon"", against the advice of her roommate Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer). In California, she auditions with The Rose, and is informed it is not a musical. The audition goes uncomfortably awry, partially due to the unfamiliar galactic jargon. Sidney, the producer of ""Funny Girl"", calls to tell her to be at the theater at 7:30 as her understudy has injured herself. Rachel is horrified to discover the state of the traffic jam her taxi is"
"of flatness in the writing. Funny Girl (novel) Funny Girl is a 2014 novel by the British writer Nick Hornby. The novel is about Barbara Parker, Miss Blackpool of 1964, who decides to forego ideas of becoming a beauty queen. She heads for London, determined to make her mark as a television comedian, inspired by her idol Lucille Ball. After finding a job on a cosmetics counter in a London department store, she meets a theatrical agent, Brian Debenham, who finds her an audition for a television sitcom pilot based around the domestic life of a newlywed couple. Taking the"
"playing a man-hating, escaped prisoner convicted of spousal abuse. The Fun Girls The Fun Girls (""Daphne and Skippy"") are fictional recurring characters on ""The Andy Griffith Show"", an American TV sitcom from the 1960s. ""The Fun Girls"" (sardonically nicknamed by Thelma Lou) were a pair of fun-loving women: the giggly Skippy (played by Joyce Jameson) and the gravel-voiced Daphne (played by Jean Carson). The two hailed from Mount Pilot, the ""big city"" near the small town of Mayberry. They were flirtatious, they loved dancing, and their appearance in town almost always meant trouble for Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney"
"Follies"" with Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, William Powell, Gene Kelly, Fanny Brice, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse, Lucille Ball, Kathryn Grayson, and others performing songs and sketches similar to those from the original Follies. Brice appeared in the Follies for more than ten years. The 1964 musical, ""Funny Girl"", starring Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, depicts Brice's success with the Follies. The 1968 Columbia film of the musical also starred Barbra Streisand as Brice and Walter Pidgeon as Florenz Ziegfeld. The 1912 version of the Ziegfeld Follies included a song entitled ""Row, Row, Row"", which has been"
"Wise Girl (film) Wise Girl is a 1937 romantic comedy film starring Miriam Hopkins and Ray Milland. A wealthy socialite tries to gain custody of her orphaned nieces. Susan Fletcher (Miriam Hopkins) and her millionaire father, Simon (Henry Stephenson), are eager to take care of her late sister's two daughters, Joan and Katie, but her deceased brother-in-law's will placed them in the custody of his brother, John O'Halloran (Ray Milland). Mr. Fletcher's lawyers inform him that there is nothing they can do, unless John can be shown to be unemployed. However, though he loses jobs frequently, he also seems to"
"Fanny Brice, Feldman handled advertising and publicity for the Broadway production of ""Funny Girl"" throughout its run. Feldman's first credit as a film producer was the 1971 melodrama ""What's the Matter with Helen?"" starring Debbie Reynolds and Shelley Winters. Additional credits include ""Save the Tiger"", ""The Other Side of the Mountain"", ""Two-Minute Warning"", ""The Last Married Couple in America"", ""Hot Dog...The Movie"", ""Witness"", ""The Golden Child"", ""Wired"", ""Green Card"", ""The Doctor"", ""Forever Young"", the live-action ""The Jungle Book"", the live-action ""101 Dalmatians"" and its sequel, ""102 Dalmatians"", ""The Truman Show"", and """". For television, Feldman produced several films and miniseries,"
"Jean Carson Jean Carson (February 28, 1923 – November 2, 2005) was an American stage, film and television actress best known for her work on the classic 1960s sitcom ""The Andy Griffith Show"" as one of the ""fun girls"". Carson was born in Charleston, West Virginia, to Alexander W. Carson and Sadie (nėe Leete; a descendant of William Leete, first governor of the Colony of Connecticut). She first became interested in show business as a child, playing a ""bad little Indian girl"". At the age of 12, she got her first acting job, earning $5 for a small part in"
"Funny Story Funny Story is a 2018 tragi-comedy, directed by Michael J. Gallagher and co-written by Gallagher and Steve Greene. Starring Matthew Glave, Emily Bett Rickards and Jana Winternitz. The film premiered as an official selection at the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival on January 21, 2018. Aging TV star Walter Campbell's (Matthew Glave) attempts to breakup with younger girlfriend Lucy (Daisye Tutor) are thwarted by the announcement of her pregnancy. Looking for space, Walter resolves to visit his estranged daughter Nic (Jana Winternitz), currently residing in Big Sur, resentful of her father's neglectful parenting and womanizing ways. He agrees to"
"Beautiful Girl (film) Beautiful Girl is a 2003 television movie starring Marissa Jaret Winokur. The film was directed by Douglas Barr for the ABC Family network. Marissa Jaret Winokur plays Becca Wasserman, a young woman recently engaged to a young man, Adam Lopez (Mark Consuelos). Hoping to improve their modest honeymoon plans, Becca seeks the vacation prize offered in a local beauty pageant. Charming and buoyant, Becca enters herself confidently, over the objections of her embarrassed mother (Fran Drescher) who believes that her daughter's plus-size form will be ridiculed. Becca rejects the criticism and becomes determined to win. Overcoming all"
"based on Stark’s iconic mother in-law), Stark felt drawn to Barbra Streisand, an unknown singer and performer on the rise in New York City. After a long courtship with the then unknown, Stark and Jerome Robbins, (the production supervisor and director of the Broadway show) decided to cast her as their lead. After an arduous rehearsal period filled with revisions and rewrites, ""Funny Girl"" opened to rave reviews on Broadway and became a critical and commercial success. Stark had the smash hit he’d hoped for, and Streisand emerged as a full-fledged star. For both, it was the beginning of an"
"Funny Girl with Lea Michele also in ""Opening Night"". Sue's final solo in the series is a cover of ""Bitch"" by Meredith Brooks in ""The Hurt Locker, Part One"". She performs another duet with Doris in ""The Rise and Fall of Sue Sylvester"": ""The Trolley Song"" from ""Meet Me in St. Louis. Also featured in that episode is a duet of Europe's ""The Final Countdown with Will. Sue's final performance is a duet with Will of ABBA's ""The Winner Takes It All. Sue was lauded as ""the greatest Broadway-musical villain to ever co-star in a TV series"" by ""Entertainment Weekly"""
"The Good Girl The Good Girl is a 2002 American black comedy-drama film directed by Miguel Arteta from a script by Mike White, and stars Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal and John C. Reilly. Justine Last (Jennifer Aniston) is a depressed and unmotivated thirty-year-old woman living in a small town in Texas with her husband Phil (John C. Reilly), a house painter who spends most of his free time smoking marijuana with his best friend, Bubba (Tim Blake Nelson). Justine works at Retail Rodeo, the local big-box store, along with Cheryl (Zooey Deschanel), a cynical, plain-spoken young woman, Gwen (Deborah Rush),"
"Linda Gerard Linda Gerard (December 24, 1938 - March 21, 2014) was a singer, stage actress and cabaret artist based in Palm Springs, California. Originally from Trenton, New Jersey, she had performed on and off Broadway in theater productions, cabaret acts and as a singer across the Eastern seaboard and later in California. Gerard was a self-identified OWL—an older, wiser lesbian. Gerard was a standby for Barbra Streisand and Mimi Hines in the original 1960s runs of the musical ""Funny Girl"", taking the stage as Fanny Brice many times. In the sixties and seventies, she developed an original repertoire of"
"the Broadway show ""Funny Girl"", with Barbra Streisand, and later, Mimi Hines. After seventeen previews, the Broadway production opened on March 26, 1964, at the Winter Garden Theatre, subsequently transferring to the Majestic Theatre and the Broadway Theatre to complete its total run of 1,348 performances. In 1967 and 1968, he played in the pit orchestra at the Mark Hellinger Theater for ""An Evening with Marlene Dietrich"", for which Dietrich received a special Tony award in 1968. He also appeared on and off Broadway in ""On Your Toes"", and ""The Me Nobody Knows"". While he was playing ""Funny Girl"", Knepper"
"Gone Girl (film) Gone Girl is a 2014 American psychological thriller film directed by David Fincher and written by Gillian Flynn, based on her 2012 novel of the same title. The film stars Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tyler Perry. Set in Missouri, the story begins as a mystery that follows the events surrounding Nick Dunne (Affleck), who becomes the primary suspect in the sudden disappearance of his wife, Amy (Pike). The film had its world premiere on opening night of the 52nd New York Film Festival on September 26, 2014, before a nationwide theatrical release on"
"Valerie Leon Valerie Leon (born 12 November 1943) is an English actress who had roles in a number of high-profile British film productions, including the ""Carry On"" series. Her father was a director of a textile company, and her mother, who trained at RADA, ended her acting career to become a full-time mother. Valerie is the eldest of four privately educated children. After leaving school, she became a trainee fashion buyer at Harrods, before playing truant one day to go to an audition which led to her becoming a chorus girl, and then appearing with Barbra Streisand in ""Funny Girl"""